QDirStat is an open source graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean up the mess. It fully merits its inclusion in our Essential System Tools feature.
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Category: Software
Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks
Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
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24 Excellent GNOME Extensions (Updated)
Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there’s only open source goodness on offer.
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Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl
This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.
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Essential System Tools: f3 – detect and fix counterfeit flash storage
f3 is a set of 5 open source utilities that detect and repair counterfeit flash storage. It achieves this by testing the flash cards’ capacity and performance.
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aux.app – desktop music player
aux.app plays music from YouTube, SoundCloud and Deezer. It’s built with web technologies including Electron. How does it fare?
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Best Free Linux Home Computer Emulators
This article focuses on software which emulates home computers, a class of personal computer which reached the market in the late 1970s, and became immensely popular in the following decade, selling many millions of units. Leading home computer companies included Commodore, Sinclair, Atari, Apple, Acorn, Tandy Radio Shack, and Amstrad.
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Shortwave – GTK3 internet radio software
Shortwave (previously known as Gradio) is open source goodness that lets you find and listen to 20,000 radio stations over the net.
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7 Best Free Linux Mega Drive Emulators
The Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) was a leading 16-bit video game console system. The console was developed by Sega Corporation in 1988. Sega was unable to obtain trademark rights in North America, and it was released in that market under the name of Sega Genesis.
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Best Free Linux Video Console Game Emulators
This article selects the best free and open source software to emulate classic video consoles, such as the Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Wii, Sega Mega Drive, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, and many others.
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